A very evocative studio portrait of three – instead of the usual single - ayah which, intentionally or not, hints at something of the pathos of their work.
Albert Hall was opened in 1887 and designed by the British architect Sir Swinton Jacob. Now a museum, famous for its magnificent collection of paintings, crystal works, statues of stone, metal and ivory and carpets, it also houses a modern art…
A postcard that shows off the great detail achievable in the collotype printing process. Made from a photography from by the photographer Fred Bremner of Lahore and Quetta, the reproduced image owes its ability to reproduce the detail of the…
An unusual artist-signed postcard of All Saints Church in Coonoor, established in 1854. Very finely done, it is among the limited examples British amateur artist trying their hand at something often self-published on a postcard.
Clare Harris in her book Photography and Tibet (Reaktion Books, 2016) writes of this postcard, "a portrait of a young woman that features prominently in The Buddhism of Tibet as a generic illustration of Tibetan femininity implies that she'd been…
In The River showing Jetties and Howrah Bridge. Calcutta ships from all over the world are docked on the Hooghly, next to 18th and 19th century mansions occupied by successful trading houses.
A postcard celebrating an electric power plant, apparently in the cantonment area. Although little seems to be known about this facility (it seems to have been handed over to the municipality in 1963), this plant was celebrated by numerous postcard…
A view of one of the Murree hills, showing a number of the British-built homes along the road that winds from the main bazaar to Kashmir point, looking north.
Early postcards from the Malabar Coast are uncommon. This one from Nicolas Brothers, a firm set up in Madras in the 1860s which later opened a branch in Calicut, still bears the rounded frame on top once popular on albumen photographs, opening an…
